Climate talks begin in Paris

France's President Francois Hollande, left, shakes hand with Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon, prior to a meeting at the Elysee Palace, in Paris. Picture: Thibault Camus

France's President Francois Hollande, left, shakes hand with Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon, prior to a meeting at the Elysee Palace, in Paris. Picture: Thibault Camus

Published Nov 29, 2015

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Paris The latest from the much-anticipated UN climate conference that gets underway in Paris on Monday. All times local: 9.45am.

More than 140 world leaders are gathering in Paris for high-stakes talks seeking a long-term deal to slow man-made global warming.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is meeting French President Francois Hollande on Sunday morning to discuss the talks, and US President Barack Obama is among scores of other leaders arriving for the talks.

The November 30 - December 11 UN climate conference is under extra-high security after extremists killed 130 people around Paris earlier this month.

Negotiators from 196 countries are seeking an accord that reduces man-made emissions to limit rising sea levels and increasingly extreme weather that is already threatening populations around the world.

AP

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